A JOURNALIST AND award-winning writer who for a decade (2002-2012) made her home in France, Beth Arnold has written for such print venues as Rolling Stone, GQ, InStyle, Self, American Way, Premiere, and Mirabella.

Online, besides her regular blogging for The Huffington Post and for www.betharnold.com (where she published her acclaimed “Letter From Paris”-branded column and podcasts), she has also written for Salon.com, Vogue.com, and Marco Polo Quarterly, among others. Her prime journalistic topics are culture, travel, politics, and people. Her online commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, The Hotline, Der Spiegel, BuzzFlash, The Satirical Political Report, Daily Kos, AlterNet, Democratic Underground, PoynterOnline, and USA Today Online.

In 2011, Arnold was named one of Tripbase’s “100 Favourite Travel Writers,” and her “Letter From Paris” was one of their Top 10 Paris Blogs of 2011. She was also named among Go Overseas’ “Top Blogs France” and an “Editors’ Pick” by Travel Onion.

The Exile having now Returned to the U.S., Arnold has characteristically plunged into the new entrepreneurial culture with a Web start-up called CherryPic’d, which is expected to launch in winter 2014. She is also preparing two books for publication—28 days without the internet, recounting her self-imposed rehab on the Greek island of Naxos, free from the Force that had fried her brain; and Jours of Our Lives, her version of the trip through France recounted by her husband, James Morgan, in his 2005 book Chasing Matisse.

She'd love to hear from you! You can contact her at bethatbetharnold.com.

A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, my husband, James Morgan, and I moved back to the U.S. after living 10 years in France. We returned more or less kicking and screaming. We had been away long enough to lose some of our American culture and to prefer the...

I happen to be reading Malcolm Cowley's book Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. This book was first published in the U.S. in 1934, then revised and expanded in 1951, and has been republished regularly since then. What is the allure? Why do generations of Americans...

AUDIENCES AND REVIEWERS are falling all over themselves to praise Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest offering that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month. In it, successful hack Hollywood screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), have come to Paris with her stuffy Republican parents...

A couple of days ago, the Lone Wolf and I were taking one of our strolls through the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, which is an endlessly fascinating park to us. For those who don't know: Père-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris at 118.6 acres and is said to...

From Beth Arnold: While designer John Galliano spat the latest Paris Fashion Week into history, it is not only appropriate but necessary to pose the question Letter From Paris fashion reporter Philippe Perisse de Montchenu has brilliantly asked in the essay below: What is...

I am a lover of Les Halles, the area in the center of Paris that from the 12th century until the 1970's was devoted to the selling of food -- the central market -- that was a cornucopia of fresh goods that arrived in Paris from the fields...

When The Cheese Princess and her sister, The Chocoholic, were in Paris for two weeks over Christmas, I knew that we needed to do some serious degusting of the great and powerful ambrosia of the cacao, the food of the gods. Oh, the paste from the seeds of...

Every expatriate has a story of how and why he left his home and came to live in a foreign land. These accounts may be tales of romance. They may thrill or entertain. The expat may never have meant to stay, but somehow new roots burrowed into foreign soil.

On our recent visit to the Republic of Georgia and its second ever Fashion Week, the Lone Wolf and I were also introduced to Georgian art. There is nothing I like better than to experience the culture of a new territory by looking through the eyes...

The holiday season is upon us, which means our yearly eating, drinking, partying, shopping, spending blow-out has begun! I have to admit that I love Christmas. My parents, Bill and Bobbye Arnold, didn't give us every single thing we wanted all year round, but, yeah, baby, at Christmas, they loaded...

Fall yields a great season of art in Paris, this year being no exception. With exhibits like "The Treasure of the Medicis" at the Musée Maillol, the monumental "Monet" at the Grand Palais, "Arman" at the Centre Pompidou (how the French love the late...

On the 20th of November it will be 20 years since my brother Brent died, and my heart cracked open and bled away. The life leaked out of me as he took his last breath. It was after a few hours during which Brent struggled to live -- or was...